-----Original Message----- From: Bartning@aol.com [mailto:Bartning@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 08:59 PM To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Donors - Status?

There's been a lot of talk about paid editors, but what about conflicts of interest with Wikipedia when it accepts donations from corporations? There's already belief that the organization gives large companies a lot of perks, e.g. allowing them to upload their logo, even mentioning them in an article, but how do donations from them influence Wikipedia?

I have not seen any directives from OFFICE to spiff up their articles. I doubt any such suggestion would be respected.

Fred